Months of headaches caused by heavy machinery and dry wells are over for one South Valley neighborhood.

A flood control project is finally wrapping up. The Army Corps of Engineers spent months digging on a piece of land in the South Valley, transforming it into a holding pond for stormwater, meant to keep houses from flooding during monsoon season.

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"I think it's going to go back to being their peaceful neighborhood," Jerry Nieto of the Army CorpCorps of Engineers said. "It's going to get a lot of people out of the flood plain once the system is complete."

The first phase is complete. Water is no longer flowing out of drains as it was for months during the project. Nieto also said crews have removed nearly 15 noisy pump houses from the property.

Developers said the water table has also returned to normal levels. It was an issue because people claimed that their wells dried up during the work.

"We had monitor wells out here, so we drew down the water table at least five5 feet," Nieto said.

The Corps will plant some more trees and grasses along the outside of the pond, which officials hope will help draw wildlife to the area.

The county still has to install drains in the holding pond. There is no word on when that work will start.